Relax, it’s not Delilah that is in need of a home! Although I must confess there are days when it crosses my mind. 😉
Most days my dogs and their crazy antics provide me with plenty of blogging material. I will either have a general idea when I get up in the morning OR the dogs will do something silly and viola a blog topic. (Incidentally not having ever taken french in school I actually pronounced this Vee Ola, that is until I was corrected.) 🙂
Today I had nothing.
So I started surfing around the internet looking for inspiration.
I came across a post at Blog Paws, and here is what it said.
The Animal Welfare League of Alexandria is urgently seeking temporary foster homes for dogs while we upgrade the flooring in our dog runs. Construction begins Monday, January 9th and we’re seeking foster homes for dogs who are anxious, sensitive to noise, distracted by lots of activity, or have medical issues.
If you’ve ever considered fostering dogs, this is a great opportunity to share your home for several weeks. Construction is expected to last until the end of January or early February. Expedited training is available.
If you’ve fostered dogs in the past or can help spread the word, we’d greatly appreciate your help. To learn more, click here or contact Diann Hohenthaner, Foster Program Coordinator, at 703-746-5583. (Her e-mail address is dhohenthaner@alexandriaanimals.org, I don’t know how to add the e-mail link!)
Now you probably know I am NOT in the Alexandria, Virginia area, and quite truthfully, right about now regarding this opportunity I would really LOVE to be. Because I would LOVE to do a foster and this seems like the perfect situation to me. Enough of a commitment to get the idea of how fostering would work within our two dog pack but not enough time where we all become really attached and have our hearts broken when the little guy leaves.
With all that being said, I am STILL NOT in the Alexandria, Virginia area so I thought I would throw it out to you and see if you (or your readers) knew anyone that might be able to help out.
Feel free to link back or copy this post.
Together we CAN make a difference!
Like you, I wish I was in the area…I would be first in line to take some doggies home:) I will share this on my blog and on my Facebook page… Hopefully, they will get enough foster homes lined up for everybody to be comfy.
Great idea to post it so the information can get out there 🙂
You expect us to believe that NOTHING blog worthy was done at your house today by Delilah or Sampson? 🙂
Great job finding an important and interesting topic to write about. It makes me wish I lived in the Alexandria, Virginia area.
Seems like a great way to help a local shelter. Hope they find enough volunteers. 🙂
No, you’re not in Alexandria, but would you believe that this is my neck of the woods? Being foster-less at the moment maybe I need to check this out…Thanks for passing this along!
I hope you’re doing well and your year is off to a good start!! 🙂
What a great way to see if you would like fostering, if you did live nearby.
I’d be interested in fostering if we had more room. Four dogs is too much here, though, and I know it. (Even if my heart gets away from me here and there like when I saw Pearl.)
Other ideas to see if it would work is you can try and see if their are opportunities with for overnight stays, like we did with Rocco. Gives you an idea of seeing if a third dog can come and go easily, with no worry about getting too attached, since they’re leaving the next day.
Another idea might be to dog sit for people. Then, you know the dog’s temperament well and you can just concentrate on seeing how mixing a third one in with your pack works. And, of course, you KNOW they have a home to go back to, so you can’t keep ’em. 🙂
I AM more or less in the area–but I’m afraid I have my hands full with foster dogs at the moment! But who knows, I have some pretty good applicants for both my foster monsters…
Nonetheless you highlight an excellent point–that short-term fostering is a wonderful way to save lives and spend time with dogs without getting too attached or committed.
Back before I got my long-term fosters, I had many dogs who were with me only a month–a couple who took a few weeks and one who took 3 days to get adopted! It is all about the dog, and about how much you and your rescue group work to get the dog adopted. There are lots of ways to make the process go faster; my best advice is to find a rescue group that is well organized and has a well-trafficked website.
Also, rescue groups always need people who can do short-term fostering for a weekend or slightly longer. If they have these people, then they don’t need to pay to board dogs when their long-term fosters go out of town. Bingo, just like that you’ve saved a group hundreds of dollars that they can then use to do more spays and neuters and pull more dogs from shelters, so you’ve just helped them save potentially many lives!
In short, fostering is the best thing I’ve ever done and I highly recommend finding a way to try it…whether its short or long-term, it’s tough to think of anything more rewarding!
http://peacefuldog.blogspot.com/p/previous-fosters.html
I’m in the area – not sure if we can take in a foster right now, but I’m going to talk to my husband about it.
In any event, I’m going to share this on all of my social networks since I have many local readers. Thank you for alerting me to this!
Sometime when I have fewer dogs, I might try fostering, but I’m afraid it would break my heart to let them go.